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Reporter: Corey Levitan

Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers entertainment, dining and gaming news in Las Vegas.

Corey spent six years covering the Vegas Strip for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he also wrote the most popular humor column in the city’s history. (For “Fear and Loafing,” he tried out 176 Vegas jobs, including poker player, blackjack dealer and Follie Bergere dancer.)

Corey has won more than 100 local, state and national awards for his journalism, which has also appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and the New York Post.

Corey is a New York native whose hobbies include playing guitar, trying to be a better husband, and arguing with strangers on Facebook.

Contact Corey at corey@casino.org.

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2430 stories by Corey Levitan

WSOP Main Event Opens With Two First-Hand Busts

The Main Event at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) opened on Wednesday at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas at a few minutes after noon. And for two players, the dream of winning poker's most prestigious tournament ended a few...

Corey Levitan July 3, 2024

New Doc Spotlights Cast Who Died of Cancer After Shooting John Wayne Film Downwind of Nevada Test Site

From the time it came out through the 1990s, “The Conqueror” -- starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan -- was known as a bad choice for its cast because it was horrible movie that flopped. Since then, it’s become known as a...

Corey Levitan July 3, 2024

FAA Partially Clears Airport at Las Vegas Spaceport for Takeoff

An airport for recreational space travel in Las Vegas just cleared the second hurdle on its voyage toward reality. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently approved some of the plans for a private airport on 240 acres of desert land that its...

Corey Levitan July 2, 2024

UPDATE: Grisly New Details in Escort Murder at Palms in Vegas

UPDATE: The name of the escort attacked in her Palms hotel room on June 12 has been released, as well as grisly deals about the crime, which Las Vegas police are now investigating as a murder. Police told KLAS-TV/Las Vegas that Larissa...

Corey Levitan July 1, 2024

MYSTERY SOLVED: MGM Bought $54M Sliver of Land to Expand Bellagio Retail

The mystery of why MGM Resorts paid $54 million for a 1.62-acre sliver of land dividing the Bellagio from the Cosmopolitan in 2023 has just been solved by leaked Clark County permit applications. The expansion, according to schematics first published by Casino.org’s...

Corey Levitan July 1, 2024

Titanic NHL Draft at Vegas Sphere Boasts Celine Dion

Celine Dion helped make the 2024 NHL Draft, the first sports-related event held inside the Las Vegas Sphere, a memorable one on Friday. The Las Vegas icon, whose singing career has been sidelined by a rare and incurable neurological disease, announced the...

Corey Levitan June 29, 2024

VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Megabucks Will Hit on a Casino’s Opening Night

EDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s entry in our ongoing series originally ran on Dec. 11, 2023.  When the Fontainebleau opens to the public at midnight on Thursday, many gamblers, probably wearing their lucky sweaters,...

Corey Levitan June 28, 2024

End of the Line for Mirage-Treasure Island Tram on Las Vegas Strip

The free tram from The Mirage to Treasure Island has carried its final passenger. The two-car people mover now sits locked up at the front of The Mirage, part of the iconic resort's preparations to close its doors forever on July 17....

Corey Levitan June 27, 2024

VEGAS RESTAURANT ROUNDUP: Wolfgang’s WTPuck Next Opening, All the Pizza News You Can Eat

Wolfgang Puck is planning his next Las Vegas opening after Carama at Mandalay Bay earlier this year, and it will be the celebrity chef's first outside a casino. According to Eater Vegas, Puck will be the “sole culinary operator” at the Four...

Corey Levitan June 26, 2024

Magician Shin Lim Crossing Las Vegas Blvd. After Mirage Vanishes

What do the Beatles and illusionist Shin Lim not have in common? Lim will still have a show on the Las Vegas Strip once The Mirage closes on July 17. The two-time “America’s Got Talent (AGT)” champ is taking his “Limitless” show...

Corey Levitan June 26, 2024